Jutro će promeniti sve Drama Anđela Review

『Between Expectation and Conformity, Marta Awakens Anđela』

🎥 Drama Overview

🎬 Title: Jutro će promeniti sve (English title: Morning Changes Everything, 2018)
🌍 Country: 🇷🇸 Serbia
🎞️ Genre: Drama / Coming-of-Age / Queer
🗓️ Production & Broadcast: RTS (Serbian National Television), 2018, Total 39 Episodes
📢 Directors: Goran Stanković, Vladimir Tagić, et al.
🖋️ Writers: Vladimir Tagić, et al.
📺 Platforms: RTS, Telekom Srbija (Web Streaming)

👩‍💼 Cast: Jovana Stojiljković as Anđela
Jelena Galović as Marta
Hana Beštić as Darija

🧩 Deep Story Analysis (Spoilers)

🚨 The Anxiety and Identity of a ‘Lost Generation’

This series follows the frustrations and identity crises of young Belgraders in their 30s, especially the millennial generation. Having grown up during a period of war and transition, they struggle to find stable jobs or a clear future, remaining “adults who never quite became adults.”

• Job insecurity and economic instability: Despite their high education, the protagonists remain stuck in unstable freelance work or reliant on their parents. This realistically portrays the economic powerlessness experienced by young people across Eastern Europe, including Serbia.

• Doubt about the future: They constantly question whether to stay in Serbia or emigrate to Western Europe—a dilemma of brain drain. The title Morning Changes Everything ironically reflects not hope, but the precarious instability of daily life that defines their reality.

🌒 The Pressure of Being the ‘Perfect Woman’ and Inner Emptiness

Anđela is an achievement-oriented character who seeks social recognition through academic and professional success. This relentless drive stems from her desire to secure stability in an unstable society—a desperate attempt to maintain control.

• The most successful friend: Outwardly, Anđela appears to be the only one in her group with a clear future, a defense mechanism that hides her internal confusion. She strives to meet others’ expectations, but in doing so, suppresses her genuine emotions and desires.

• The gap between career and happiness: Despite approaching her Ph.D. and a potential professorship, Anđela feels no deep satisfaction. Her emptiness symbolizes a modern dilemma: success may match society’s definition of a “good life,” but not one’s own happiness.

🏆 The ‘Heteronormative Mask’ and Emotional Void

Anđela’s romantic life begins with the mask of a seemingly perfect existence, but her inner world is marked by profound emotional emptiness.

• Fulfilling social expectations: Her attempts to engage in heterosexual relationships—or behave as if she were straight—are unconscious efforts to secure a “normal,” socially acceptable life in a conservative environment. This “Heteronormative Mask” places her on a path to social success but amplifies her inner unease by suppressing her true desires.

• The absence of love: Her early relationships lack passion or deep emotional connection. This reveals that without self-acceptance, she cannot experience authentic love.

💘 Awakening Queer Identity and Exploring Relationships

Anđela’s journey toward self-awareness begins through her relationships with women. For her, love becomes not an act of conformity, but a tool of liberation.

• Means of self-discovery: Her romantic experiences with women function as a series of experiments through which she attempts to answer the question: “Is this who I am?”

• The dilemma of selective coming out: While she cautiously comes out to her closest friends and brother, she remains hesitant to fully integrate her identity into her public life. This “selective disclosure” creates deep conflicts of authenticity within her relationships.

🌟 Marta and Anđela: ‘Love in the Closet’ and the Awakening of Authenticity

The relationship between Anđela and Marta begins as a forbidden intimacy but soon becomes shadowed by the destructive nature of secrecy. At its core, their relationship embodies “Love in the Closet.”

Marta chooses to completely hide her sexuality from her family and friends. For her, love with Anđela exists only in the private sphere—never in public. As their relationship becomes trapped in Marta’s divided life, it develops an inherent imbalance and instability.

Through Marta, Anđela learns that “half-hearted commitment can never build true love.” She realizes that Marta’s secrecy is slowly destroying their bond. Anđela doesn’t just want to be a “partner”; she wants to be a fully integrated part of Marta’s life. From this heartbreak, she sets a new standard—love must be mutual, open, and grounded in authenticity.

🌹 Daria and Anđela: ‘Free but Immature Love’ and the Search for Stability

After Marta, Anđela meets Daria—a woman who represents the opposite. Daria is open and confident about her sexuality, unafraid of public scrutiny. Their relationship embodies “freedom without maturity.”

While Daria offers Anđela a sense of emotional liberation, the relationship itself is unstable and lacks depth. Although Daria has freed herself from secrecy, she lacks the emotional maturity, commitment, and long-term perspective necessary for stability. Through Daria, Anđela realizes that what she seeks is not mere freedom of expression but emotional stability and mature devotion.

This relationship gives Anđela a crucial insight: the importance of “mature and sustainable partnership.” She recognizes that she needs a relationship grounded in mutual growth and emotional security—a love that evolves alongside her life, not apart from it.

💫 The Meaning of Love: Growth and an Unfinished Happy Ending

Anđela’s story does not end with a happy ending. By the series’ conclusion, she is still searching for true love. Yet, this lack of closure makes her journey all the more realistic and meaningful.

• The intersection of stability and authenticity: Her romantic path lies between two values—social stability as an academic and emotional authenticity as a queer woman. She proves willing to risk social comfort for truth, evolving from “the most perfect Anđela” into her most genuine self.

Her story mirrors her generation’s emotional fatigue and relational paralysis. In an uncertain society, young adults must first confront the question, “Who am I?” before they can find genuine love. Every failed relationship becomes a stepping stone toward self-awareness and emotional maturity.

💡 “Everyone’s Anđela”: Portrait of a Generation Sharing the Same Anxiety

Anđela resonated deeply with viewers, prompting the phrase, “We are all Anđela.” Her struggles represent the collective experience of modern Serbian (and broader Eastern European) youth.

• Responsibility and helplessness: Anđela often advises and supports others—especially her brother Filip—with a strong sense of duty, yet she feels powerless over her own life. This mirrors the irony of modern adulthood: easily solving others’ problems while failing to manage one’s own.

• Stagnation amid a desire for change: Beneath her calm exterior, Anđela fears that her current stability may be an illusion. She yearns for transformation but hesitates to take the first step—embodying the restless spirit of a wandering millennial generation. Just like the title suggests, she hopes “tomorrow everything will change,” even as she fears it.

Through academic success, complex sexuality, and emotional turbulence, Anđela becomes one of the most multidimensional portraits of her generation—a character who adds profound psychological depth to this series.

🎯 Personal Rating

💕 Love Scene Intensity: ♥♥♥
⭐ Rating: ★★★☆